Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...between sessions to gulp down a creamed-chicken lunch in his office late in the week. Lyndon Johnson was interrupted by a telephone call from Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, with word that the Army was being authorized to proceed on a top-priority basis with work on a solid-fuel missile to replace the 200-mile, liquid-fuel Redstone rocket. It took just seconds for Johnson to convince McElroy that the announcement should be made by Major General John B. Medaris. scheduled to appear before the Johnson Subcommittee that very afternoon...
Looking ahead, the U.S.'s best intermediate-range prospect is the Navy's experimental solid-charge, 1,500-mile Lockheed Polaris, designed to be fired from surface vessels or nuclear submarines. Polaris' solid charge, a slow-burning chemical compound, makes Polaris the U.S.'s first "second-generation" long-range ballistic missile; the solid charge will be easier, simpler, faster to handle than present types of liquid fuel. Polaris, the first true pushbutton IRBM in sight, is lighter and smaller, so cannot pack as heavy a warhead as Jupiter and Thor. Its ultimate success will depend...
...short, the Sullivans' advocacy of the proposal seems substantiated by little more solid than a desire to make the Basin appear a great deal more valuable than it now is. By spearheading the fight to cloak the land with an apparent mantle of industrial value, Mr. J.B. Sullivan stands to make a considerable profit...
Neither of the girls had any previous business experience. "Our friends told us we were complete fools to try," Paula said. "It was difficult at first to convince solid, middle-class Americans that a new artistic endeavor could also be a financial success, but finally we got the backing we needed...
Designing a successful solid-fuel rocket is largely a matter of matching the burning rate of the fuel to the nozzle through which the gases escape. This is not easy for skilled experts. For kids with a collection of pipe fittings, a couple of chemicals and almost no knowledge, correct calculation is almost impossible. Many of their rockets are like the crude pipe-bombs that the Mad Bomber hid in Manhattan movie theaters. Some are much worse. Kids are apparently able to acquire most of the hair-raising chemicals that they have been reading about in books on rockets...